minus-squarecustard_swollower@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Why isn't using a key file the most common way to log into self-hosted servers?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down2·3 days agoCongratulations, now your „password” (the 512-byte random key file) is stored as plaintext on your machine :) With rate-limiting, non-trivial passwords are not viable to be brute-forced, so making them larger just doesn’t give you much. linkfedilink
Congratulations, now your „password” (the 512-byte random key file) is stored as plaintext on your machine :)
With rate-limiting, non-trivial passwords are not viable to be brute-forced, so making them larger just doesn’t give you much.